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Okay guys my Fett costume is coming together but im a little nervous.
Im 200 lbs and 6 feet tall. I have a bit of a beer gut.
Hopefully I dont look all shabby in my costume.
I noticed a lot of you are smaller and skinny.
If your an overweight Fett please post your pics so I can check them out.
Thanks.

I might also fall into the 'hefty' category, but I refuse to wear my costume until I lose a few pounds. It's important that everything fits properly, and doesn't stretch over your body.

Not a proud pic, but this is one of the last times I wore the costume:

Also, and this is a pet peeve of mine concerning Fett costumers, is that there should be a neck. The helmet should not sit directly on the collar armor. This can be achieved, even for those of us without necks, by adjusting the helmet liner, and making sure the collar armor is snug on the vest.

I'll have a custom done for November, so I won't be innacurate or anything, but I'd really like to drop a few pounds so when I have a Fett wearable I won't be Boba Fatt. Oh, and I'm about 5'8" and 225 lb. I'll need to get out into the battlefield a bit more often and stop hanging around the base with the free donuts.

I'm about BatNinja's size proportionally.
I am actually working on some armor designs that are slightly oversized to compensate. Will post pics once I have them painted. Essentially about 2 inches greater area over each armor piece.. PS Buckeye how exactly did you "fix" your vest?

Im built like that too. I'm 6ft 2** pounds. I carry all my weight in my gut ( why have a six pack when you can have a keg ) and my big noogin. I do not look my wieght cause I carry it well. Anyway I am debateing on waiting to makeing my suit or just go ahead and make my suit ( give me a little more insentive in my weight lose splurge I am on ATM ). I might go ahead and just make mine oversized anyway, it would be hard to build and not wear.

well, i did the online version, which is a LOT cheaper than the meetings, and doesn't involve being the only guy in a room full of women

but the parts that really worked well for me weren't really even WW specific. logging everything i ate, and all the exercise i got, weekly weigh-in, and posting weekly updates in livejournal/myspace/etc...

so the part about weekly progress is a really good idea! start up a myspace group or something... bubbafett... and we can all check in weekly.

my initial goal was 170, so i'm REALLY close now. i'll actually probably go a bit lower since there's still some squish that could stand to go away. when i started, 170 seemed reeeeaaaaallllly far off. now i'm thinking 160 seems more like it.

but seeing as i just had to get a medium vest from batninja, i'd say it has been working well.